Marcel waver.



JOHNrW. BUICKEROOD, OF BOUNDBROOK, NEW JERSEY.

MARCEL WAVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 29,1912.

Application filed March 30, 1912. Serial No. 687,312.

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This invention relates to toilet artlcles and especially to devices usedin dressing the hair, the special object of the invention 7 being toprovide a waver of a chea and simple nature and which may be use rapidlyand with the highest degree of satisfaction. 1

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which'willprove the least injurious to the users hair.

The foregoing and other objects are attained in a preferred embodimentof the invention by means of the device hereinafter fully described andclaimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1is a perspective view of a waver with a strand of hair secured thereto;Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, partly broken away, with theparts in normal unapplied position; Fig. 3 is an end elevation of thesame.

This Marcel waver comprises a tubular body 10 of a length and diametersuitable for the purpose, such dimensions being variable according tothe desires of the different users. The body 10 is made of some suitablestrong and cheap material, such as absorbent paper, in order that it mayabsorb the oil or moisture which may be used in dressing the hair.Preferably also the tubular body is made slightly tapering, as shown.

At 11 is indicated a light elongated spring of any suitable material,that shown being of flat spring metal. One end 12 of said spring is bentupon itself so as to bear against and be held in place by the oppositewalls ofthe body 10 when the spring is thrust into one end of said body.From said end 12 the spring extends upward and is thence bent backwardtoward the smaller end of the body, the spring in its normal position.being spaced from the body 10 as shown substantially in Fig. 2.

In using the waver as thus described, a strand of hair is first passedbeneath the spring 11 and the body, the first coil of the hair being.held between the spring and the body, and the subsequent coils of hairwill be wound around on the outside of both the body and the "spring.The small ends of the hair strand will be secured in any simpleconvenient manner as, for instance, by being drawn into one or morecross slits 10" of the body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is: I

The herein described Marcel waver comprising a tubular body portion anda flat spring, said spring having one end bent upon itself and adaptedto frictionally engage with the opposite sides of the inner wall of saidbody portion near one end thereof and thence extending outwardly throughsaid end of the body portion and thence bent over and toward theopposite end of the body portion. H

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN w. BUIOKEROOD.

Witnesses:

RoB'r. T. BRAMPTON, ROY RIMBART.

